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Solution to ASP.NET Form - PayPal Problem

published 6 months ago, submitted by Bognit 6 months ago

codersbarn.com — They do say it's the simple things that get you stumped. For all of you ASP.NET developers out there who have yet to integrate a site with PayPal, just wait until you finally get to add that button to your form to pass the transaction details over to PayPal..

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:,( The author is not aware that ASP.NEt MVC or Monorail will solve his problem because it offers you the flexibilityy ou need. The problem is not necessary Paypal, but the tools you choose to use...

posted by liviu 5 months, 30 days ago

Hi liviu,

It's already established that I am using ASP.NET for this project. As for the MVC pattern, it would be kind of ridiculous to dance through those hoops to solve something as basic as this, on the face of it. ASP.NET developers have been agonizing over the form issue and lack of a decent SDK for years in the PayPal forums. It would seem a reasonable thing to ask that ASP.NET developers are given some measure of consideration as all others. That's all I'm saying...

Like I said in the blog, there are numerous alternatives. The point is that we shouldn't need such alternatives in the first place. The MVC pattern was something most of us gladly gave up years ago in the switch to .NET, given the amount of goodies such as ViewState, that ASP.NET afforded us. I'm not going to get into a debate over the merits of one technology over another (MVC is amazingly flexible) but overkill in this situation.

I would still recommend PayPal as a means of receiving payment for any e-commerce site. I don't normally write rants, but when it comes to the idiots that pass themselves off as professional support engineers with PayPal, I will gladly make an exception (more likely, it's the management at fault here). I rest my case and I honestly believe that many more ASP.NET developers have felt the same frustration with them that I have. Thanks for reading the blog liviu and please note that my frustration is due to PayPal "Support" and not you personally :-)

posted by Bognit 5 months, 30 days ago

Check out http://dotnetdiscussion.net/2008/02/27/aspnet-how-to-integrate-both-google-checkout-and-paypal-in-3-steps for an even easier way to do this :)

posted by Edelman 5 months, 28 days ago